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Time To Get Real
| Tue, 02-23-2010 - 4:13pm |
Been away for a while. I've read some posts when I had some free time. I've missed a lot of posts, but from what I've been able to read - wow, there's a whole lot of misery here ! Time to get real and grasp what you could lose before it's too late.
Anyway, I had a major health scare. It sometimes takes hearing the "C" word to make you realize how precious life is. Last week I went on a business trip with hubby and we had a layover in xAP's city. I halfway expected to see xAP in the airport, he travels so much.

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Wow, what a wake up call. Thank you for sharing that. I know that I take my H and my life for granted. I treat it like it is just always gonna be there......
Thank you for reminding me that I need to take everyday and be thankful.
((hugs))
This is my first post here. I'll post my story but first wanted to say I hope your health situation improves! A health scare slaps us in the face and helps us realize what is really important in life. Our husbands, children, and other family.
I just got the same diagnosis... cervical cancer from HPV. Maybe even got it from my Xap. (I guess that's the terminology?)
I wish you the best!
Thank you so much for posting this.
(((bandk)))
I've been thinking of you a lot lately and wondered where you disappeared to. I am so sorry about your health situation and pray that you are on the mend. You were sorely missed around here.
Thank you for posting this as the timing is perfect. It was a tough week for many around here with a lot of backsliding and falling off the wagon. I was wondering where all of our Vets had gone and slowly, one by one, has chimed in the last two days; except for Clarity? Where are you GF?
Thinking back to what really got me off the roller-coaster was what you said here;
" It sickens me that I was so cavalier with my life and my relationships with my family. Take nothing for granted - what you have now, can be gone in a second."
Ten years ago this month I was in the thick of the A madness, thinking I had finally found happiness and all that jazz. It went on for another 4 years with me being miserable most of the time, knowing on some level that it was tawdry and sordid, but holding onto that shred of hope that he was going to change his life for me.
Now I call it, "Fog Stew" and man, was it ever; filled with every denial and distortion imaginable, and getting thicker by the minute until it started bubbling over the sides of the fantasy, spilling into every area of my RL.
Sometimes reflection can be good as it allows us to see how far we have come, but other times it brings nothing but regret and remorse. I fight against those "other times" because I know I am not that person anymore, but it can still haunt us like what happened to you during your trip. All we can do is shake it off, give ourselves a mental reality check, and be grateful for what we do have in our lives. So, thank you for reminding us all how important it is to do this.
Love and hugs,
~ Iddy~
~Iddy~
clinfl,
I am healing from surgery and the surgeon says he got all the cancerous tumor. But it still is a scary situation.
Oh dear, I hope you are able to get past this roadblock. My xAP's wife has HPV and repeated bad pap's. When they found this out, he pointed fingers at me. Imagine that! My pap's have all been clear, but I worry he passed it to me. I'm not educated enough on cervical cancer, but my understanding was it takes quite some length of time for the dysplasia to show up. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Welcome to EAS. I hope you find it as supportive and healing as I have.
Hi there Iddy ((
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What you said, is so true... about 'take nothing for granted, it can be gone in a second'. I really hope you'll recover soon and that you'll get your full health back.
HTGO
You are so right how finding out that you have or may have a life threatening illness affects your perspective on everything and boy does it do it fast - you see I saw my doc. last week for my yearly checkup but I've had some concerns lately that I didn't take too seriously but still thought I should talk to him about...... after describing to him my "symptoms" he immediately told me I need blood work done and that he is concerned it could be lupus..... WOW!
At first upon hearing this I had no idea what that was
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